Courageous warriors (Musha burui): 18: Taira no Kiyomori calls back the setting sun, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, artist, 1883-1886, Tokyo, woodcut, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi’s (1839-1892) career spanned the late Edo and early Meiji periods. He trained in the ie ‘studio’ of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861). His early works gave late Utagawa school theatricality an even greater sense of energy. A taste for lurid melodrama became progressively grotesque as he experienced periods of depression and hospitalisation that interrupted his professional activities. Two events provided opportunities for his professional revival. The first was the opportunity to design overtly anti-foreign patriotic reportage illustrations for newspaper and journal inserts in publications like Yamato Shinbun. The second was the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877, much celebrated in the film The Last Samurai, which ended in their tragic defeat.
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